Falkirk Wheel unique steel rotating boat lift linear and nonlinear analysis solid element modelling of movement sensitive connections LUSAS Bridge analysis software was used as the primary analysis tool by Tony Gee and Partners (TGP) for preliminary and subsequent detailed design work on the Falkirk Wheel. The Wheel (as it is known) is a unique lifting bridge designed to reconnect the Forth & Clyde and Union canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland. It is the world’s ?rst rotating boat lift and the ?rst boat lift to be built in the UK since 1875. OverviewThe project is part of a £78m British Waterways scheme to restore the two canals to their former glory. Construction of the interchange section, which comprises the Wheel, an elevated aqueduct at its upper end and a holding basin a

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